On the Clinics and Bars of Weimar Berlin 0. A trans woman seeking to remove her penis after the Great War had for the first time hope of the clinic. Surgical experiments on genitalia β and they were, their surgeons conceded , absolutely experiments 2 β began almost immediately.
Within a year a man so-called , young, nervous, and ex-military, appeared before the Institute with a loaded revolver in one pocket, an overdose of morphine in the other, and elaborate plans to splash her brains on the clinic wall after doctors declined her medical castration. Suicide was the greatest interwar German art, 5 whose perfection measured in flamboyance; the soul of the new German democracy, raked with war debt and its imputation of guilt, played out in miniature by the will to life of its every civilian.
To her surprise the doctors accepted, foiling her glamorous death. On June 21, , under referral by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, after extended psychoanalysis from Dr. Arthur Kronfeld, by the hand of Dr. Above all it serves self-preservation, since it binds a person to life. So I told myself, I must surrender my hesitation. I am at peace with myself, absolutely. They decided this was possible after seeing the moving pictures.
Using the presupposed neutrality of scientific speech in that time, these were images of sexual degeneration. Each, Dora Richter read, was credited to Dr. Dora was a fellow miserable. That war was over now; the time of the new woman β Germans called it Girlkultur 16 β was at hand. For eight years after her castration in , Dora agreed to work quietly as cookmaid in both her own gender clinic and the grand Kempinski restaurant just west through the park, by which she proved herself, after too long, a trusted test subject for something more.
In the Institute nonprofitized under stewardship of the Weimar government, and Magnus signed on as its permanent director. The task of his clinic became a thoroughly social one by these means of state.
